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University seminar part of new left activism 


By BRIAN CAMPBELL 
Acting News Editor 


Whether students’ council likes 
it or not, this campus ‘is growing 
an activist new left. 

The defunct Pro-CUS Commit- 
tee, the CIA (Campus Involvement 
Association to you), The Seminar 
on The University, and the cell in 
the New Democratic Youth House 
at 11137-89th Ave. are, or were, 
arms of an amorphous group dedi- 
cated to the new left “philosophy.” 

And the philosophy is ‘a philo- 
sophy of activism as opposed to 
pacifism” according to Barry 
Chivers, ex-NDY president on 
campus and a participant in all 
these ventures, 

He didn’t bother to say who the 
“nacifists” are, but it is clear when 
the new lefters talk they mean the 
administration, students’ council, 
and the general status quo in 
society. 

The least obvious activity the 
new lefters support is The Seminar 
on The University. 


This is the brain-trust for the 


group’s education action policies. 
The seminar was the idea of 


Gordon Weiss, a long-time Stu-~ 


dent Christian Movement member, 
and some of his friends in the or- 
ganization. The idea spread by 
word-of-mouth last year and 
blossomed this fall in a series: of 
discussions. So far there have 
been four meetings including one 
for organization. 

Sounds dull until the slow, grat- 
ing, noise of revolution appears in 
the background. 

“Last year the organization just 
sort of evolved,” said Chivers. 
“At the first meeting this year we 
only had 15 people, so we went on 
to discuss what our approach 
should be.” , 

“We agreed something was 
wrong with the system—and that 
was the common denominator.” 

At the meeting they elected a 
steering committee with some 
familiar names—Barry Chivers, 
Bruce Olsen, Donna Petroski, Gor- 
don Weiss, and Cathy Kujath—and 
decided on a program. 


Since then they have had three 
panel discussions followed by open 
question periods. Attendance is 
30-35 at the meetings now. 

They heard Dr. Sam Smith, who 
heads up the administration end 
of the Academic Planning Commit- 
tee, talk about what’s wrong with 
the university and the channels of 
change. They heard him blame the 
mess in post-secondary education 
on campus communication, 

The next session saw Dr. D. B. 
Scott, a computing scientist, and 
political scientist Dr. Grant Davy 
discuss curriculum planning in 
the university. 

Dr. Scott was called in to repre- 
sent the administration viewpoint 
of Dr. Max Wyman, who had to 
cancel at the last minute. 

Scott gave a “condescending lec- 
ture on universities up to the pre- 
sent day and tried to justify things 
as they are now,” Chivers said. 

Prof. Davy talked about the ad 
hoe methods the administration 
uses to draft and change courses. 

The administration has little 


The Gateway 


VOL. LVII, 


No. 18, THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA 


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1966, SIXTEEN PAGES 


—-Forrest Bard photo 


CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION GETS DOWN TO BRASS TACKS 
...@ new “conscience” for council 


McGill Daily editor gets axe 


MONTREAL (CUP)—Researchers 
Don’t divulge little secrets to any 
sneaky reporters who might be lolling about— 


ware! 


you may stop the press. 


That’s what happened with a story ran in 
the McGill Daily on Remembrance Day. The 
editor of the paper was fired, and 52 members 


of his staff quit. 


The paper’s long-standing feud with its 
students’ council boiled over when The Daily 
published an article claiming a McGill pro- 
fessor is conducting a research project de- 
signed to aid the U.S. war effort in Vietnam. 

“Dr. Raymond Yong, Associate Professor 


be- 


the resignation of editor Sandy Gage and his 
entire editorial board. This seems to have 
been just what council was looking for. 


The engineers claimed that the article was 


“a blatant attempt to slander and libel a mem- 
ber of the McGill University faculty.” 
In the article, Dr. Yong was quoted: “‘the 


U.S. Government considers this information 


secret and I was required to sign a statement 
pledging to keep it confidential.” 
denied by both the U.S. embassy and RCMP. 

Doug Ward, president of CUS, said the 
investigation machinery of Canadian Univer- 
sity Press should have been called in before 


This was 


of Civil Engineering and Director of the Soil 
Mechanics Laboratory, is trying to discover a 
method of determining soil solidity from the 
” the article began. 
The Engineering Undergraduate Society 
immediately drew up a resolution demanding 


Gage was fired. 

Since then, a CUP investigation commis- 
sion has been appointed, and will probe the 
firing. The commission was called by Jim 
McCoubrey, president of McGill students 
union. 


BARRY CHIVERS 
... campus activist 


CIA to 


more than cursory notes from real 
teachers and not much more in- 
formation to make decisions, he 
said. 

“But he went on to chide us for 
being a bunch of children for tak- 
ing an interest where we had none 
—in university curriculum. Dr. 
Scott agreed with him.” 

“And that was when war was 
declared,” Chivers said. Since then 
they have formed an action group 
to investigate educational experi- 
ments. 

There was a discussion of free 
universities by Anglican Chaplain 
Murdith McLean at the next meet- 
ing. 

Most of the meetings have had a 
strong faculty delegation present. 

“Mrs. Sparling, dean of women, 
has attended most of the meetings.” 
Chivers said. 

Usually they are about a quarter 
of the people present, but last 
meeting they were up to a third, 
he said. 


see page 2—UNIVERSITY 


serve 


as conscience 


for Council 


Campus activists want 
informed student body 


By ELAINE VERBICKY 


Student activists have formed a 
“conscience” for U of A students’ 
council. 


And the conscience, the Campus 
Involvement Association, (CIA for 
short) intends to speak out on 
council’s sins. 


“We want to confront students 
with the important issues, and this 
means confronting students’ coun- 
cil, asking them ‘what are you 
doing about universal accessibility 
or the situation in Lethbridge?’ ” 
said Bruce Olsen, former Pro-CUS 
committee chairman, at an organ- 
ization meeting Monday. 


The CIA, a phoenix rising from 


the ashes of the Pro-CUS commit- ° 


tee, will politicize the campus, try- 
ing to make students aware of im- 


dent body for. approval. 


portant issues in the university 
community and outside of it. 


Sue Boddington, co-chairman of 
the CIA steering committee, said, 
“The CIA will be providing an or- 
ganized voice on campus for 
opinion other than that of students’ 
council.” 


The 17-member steering com- 
mittee was appointed Monday to 
formulate policy. Once every 
month the CIA will put action be- 
fore a general meeting of the stu- 
These 
meetings will be impartially chair- 
ed by Bruce Olsen and Richard 
Price, ex-students’ union president. 


“This will be more of a political 
relationship than the relationship 
between students’ council and the 
student body,” said Pat Connell, 
member of the steering committee. 


When asked if the CIA was sup- 
posed to be a shadow government 
to students’ council, the committee 
said definitely, “No.” 


Favors involvement 


“But if you consider a political 
relationship a government, then 
yes, CIA will be a student govern- 
ment,” added Connell. 


To do the job, CIA has. set up 
sub-committees in international 
affairs, the CUS question, universal 
accessibility, university reform and 
Indian affairs. 


This is where CIA feels council - 


is wrong on its philosophy of non- 
involvement in  extra-university 
affairs. : 

CIA will fill the gap. 


The CIA will put up a slate of its 
own or sponsor a slate in the next 


general student election. Before 
that it hopes to bring about a re- 
ferendum on the CUS withdrawal. 


“If these people are questioning 
the nature of council’s decisions, all 
I can do is smile,” said students’ 
union president Branny Schepano- 
vich. “We have some of the most 
competent councillors this year 
who have ever sat on student 
government.” 


“On the conscience bit, let them 
not forget that councillors have 
been elected by the students. No 
other group can ever amount to 
anything more than a shadow”, 
Schepanovich added. 


2 ___THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966 


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Cultural Evening ends International Week 


An international slide show will be 
held tonight 7:30 p.m. at International 
House. 11138-88th Ave. Coffee will be 
served, there is no admission charge. 

Prof. J. King Gordon will speak “On 
the Role of the Foreign Student in the 


University” Saturday at 10 a.m. in 
Lister Hall. Register with John Sabwa 
at 433-5418. 


Miss International will be crowned at 
International Dance Saturday 8 p.m. in 
the ed gym. Music by Al Breault 
and his orchestra. 

An International Cultural Evening 
will be held Sunday 8 p.m. in Con Hall. 
Admission is 50 cents. 


TONIGHT 
BICUSPID A-GO-GO 
The annual _ Bicuspid A-Go-Go, 
sponsored by the Dental Undergraduate 
Society will be held 8:30 p.m. tonight 
in the ed gym. Music by the New 
Generations. 


LIBRARY CARDS 

Students who have not received their 
library cards may obtain them at the 
main circulation desk Cameron Library 
Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 


UNITED NATIONS 

UNICEF Christmas cards will be on 
sale weekdays until Dec. 16 in SUB 
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Money goes for 
underprivileged children. 


ILARION CLUB 


Meet at St. John's Institute 8:30 p.m. 
tonight for the Ilarion Club’s hayride, 
or at 9 p.m. at Rainbow Valley Stables. 


UKRAINIAN CLUB 

The Ukrainian Club will meet today 
at 4 p.m. in Wauneita Lounge. A. 
Kernytky and M. Ponedilok from New 
York City will read their humoristic 
stories. 


STUDENT CINEMA 

Anastasia featuring Ingrid Bergman 
and Yul Brynner will be shown in mp 
126 tonight at 7:30 p.m. 


YEARBOOK PHOTOS 

Bookings for yearbook shorts are still 
available for students who missed their 
deadlines. Apply rm 208, SUB. 


FENCE PAINTING 

Campus clubs are reminded of the 
fence painting contest for the new 
SUB. Deadline for finished paintings 
is Nov. 30. Register for your panel 
anytime in the students’ union office. 
Prizes of $20 and $10 awarded on the 
basis of originality, creativity, and 
artistic merit. 


SUNDAY 
LSM 
A panel discussion on “The Stage, 
Mask or Mirror” will be held Sunday 


University seminar 


from page 1 


The seminar also moved from 
SCM House to the Tory Building 
and the effect was the students 
were “awestruck with the faculty 
members, but when they were in 
a gloomy smoke-filled room they 
were more at ease.” 

They may move again and seek 
truth outside the techni-blue 
fluorescent lit chambers of the 
Tory Building. 


a discussion of democracy in the 
university community. 

The seminar will meet in Room 
10.4 of the Tory Building. 

And what are the formal con- 
nections between the seminar and 
the rest of the super-structure? 

None, according to Barry Chivers. 

“At lot of the thinking is con- 
terminus, and the personnel are 
quite similar—that’s all.” 

And Barry Chivers didn’t have 
any more time. He had some busi- 
ness before the CIA meeting at 5 
p.m. last Tuesday. 


at 8:30 p.m. at the LSM Centre, 11143- 
91st Ave. Panel members are Walter 
Kaasa, Rev. Linquist, Gordon Peacock, 
and Rev. McLean. Moderator is Dr. 
John Orrel. ; 


MONDAY 

CIA 

There will be a meeting of the inter- 
national affairs sub-committee of the 
Campus Involvement Association 4 p.m. 
Monday in Pybus Lounge, SUB. Any 
students interested in participating in 
discussions and research in  inter- 
national affairs are welcome. 


CAMERON LIBRARY 


A one hour lecture on finding library 
material as quickly as possible will be 
held daily at 4:45 p.m. Monday to 


Friday. Interested students should 
meet at the circulation desk of 
Cameron. 


: TUESDAY 
PRE-ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS 

An organizational meeting of the 
Pre-Architectural Students’ Society 
will be held Tuesday 2:30 p.m. in rm 
343 arts bldg. A constitution for the 
club will be discussed. 


RUSSIAN CLUB 

The Russian Club will show the 
Russian film ‘Chekhov Festival” with 
English subtitles Tuesday 7:30 p.m. in 
rm‘19 arts bldg. All interested students 
are invited to attend. 


EUS 

A general meeting of the EUS will 
be held Tuesday 3:30 p.m. in rm 129 
ed bldg. All members are requested 
to attend. 


APPLICATION DEADLINES 

Jan. 1 is the stated deadline for 
U of A students who wish to apply for 
admission to the first year Medicine or 
Dentistry during the 1967-68 session. 
Interested students should call at the 
registrar’s office as soon as possible to 


complete applications for admission 
forms. 

FOREIGN STUDENTS 

Robertson United Church, 123 St. 


and 102 Ave., is holding a foreign 
students night Dec. 4 when families of 
the congregation will entertain stu- 
dents at dinner at their homes. Any 
foreign student who would like to 


spend a evening with a Canadian 
family and who has not received an 
individual invitation by mail should 
contact the church office at 482-1587. 


WUS 

Deadline for WUS seminar applic- 
ations is Nov. 30. For ‘further in- 
formation contact Prof. Neville Linton 
or Phil Cove, rm 108 SUB 12 to 1 p.m. 
Monday to Friday. ‘ 


FEE COMMISSION 

Submissions to the fee commission 
must be made by Nov. 30 at the stu- 
dents’ union office.. These submission 
may be made by any group or in- 
dividual and may be of any length and 
on any matter relevant to students’ 
union fees. 


wus 

Branny Schepanovich talks Turkey 
8 p.m. Wednesday in the Lister Hail 
inner lounge. 


LIBRARY CARDS 

Students who have not received their 
library cards for the 1966-67 year can 
get them at the main circulation desk 
of Cameron library Monday to Friday 
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 


POLISH CLUB 

A general meeting of the Polish Club 
will be held 6 p.m. Dec. 2 in Hot Caf. 
Officers will be elected. 


GERMAN EXCHANGE 

Students interested in a German 
academic exchange scholarship should 
apply to the administrator of student 
awards by Dec. 1, stating academic 
background, proposed study in Ger- 
many and projected plans on returning 
to Canada. Students must be between 
20 and 32, have a degree before Oct. 1, 
1967 and be _ sufficiently fluent in 
German to take instruction in that 
language. 


MUSICAL CLUB 

There will be a meeting of the 
musical club 8 p.m. Dec. 4 in Con Hall, 
featuring folk music through the 
centuries. 


WUS 

World University Service is in need 
of a director for its annual Share 
campaign. Share supports the WUS 
international aid programs to develop- 
ing universities in Africa, Asia and 
South America. 


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THE FINGERNAIL DANCE—Chinda Boonpasan (left) and 
Chancharas Thirwat practice for their Thailand cultural dance 
at the International Cultural Evening held Sunday, November 
27 in Con Hall. 


Parking is big crime 

Crime on campus is no more than usual, says Les Nicholson, 
head of the Campus Patrol. 

A number of thefts have been reported, but this does not 
represent an increase over previous years. 

“A certain amount of this sort of thing is only to be expected 
on a campus of 12,000 students,” Mr. Nicholson stated. 

“Our only major problem is parking,” he concluded. 

Isn’t everybody’s? 


Print shop complaints 


The print shop is complaining there are too few good-looking female 
proofreaders working for The Gateway. ‘The editors are complaining 
there are too few good-looking females in rm 209 SUB, period. And 
with all the attractive females who will now rush up to The Gateway 
office to sign on as staffers, we could use a few more males to enjoy 
the beauty. 


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THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966 Se aa 


| Construction start set for spring . 


on married students’ residence 


An 18-storey tower will be the 
focal point of a 300 unit housing 
complex for married students. 


Construction of the estimated 
$4,250,000 complex will start next 
spring. 

The project is “one of the first 
of its type and magnitude in 
Canada”, said J. G. Grimble of 
housing and food services. 

An “unusual concept”, said D. 
M. Campbell of campus develop- 
ment and planning as he described 
the “point block” as the focal point 
of the project. 

“Point block” is what the archi- 
tect has called the 18-storey tower 
which will dominate the row 
houses and flats arranged in 
quadrants around it. 

The tower itself is unsual be- 
cause it will have seven levels of 
two floor suites. 

The kitchen, dining room, and 
living room are on the lower level 
and the master bedroom, study and 
bathroom will occupy the top half. 


Scaffold 
blamed 


for failure 


A two-hour campus power 
failure Tuesday has been blamed 
on a portable scaffold which top- 
pled on a high-voltage switchboard 
in the power plant. 

Dick Brooks, works department 
electrical foreman, says the scaf- 
folding was being used to do some 
work on the upper part of the 
power plant, and was perched on 
high-level crane operating in the 
power plant. 

The scaffolding somehow loosen- 
ed and dropped on the switchboard, 
shorting out the power supply to 
older buildings on campus,.he said. 

Newer buildings were not af- 
fected by the outage, as they re- 
ceive their power from the public 
works power plant behind the 
Jubilee Auditorium. 


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The living room has a 13-foot high 
window on the outside wall and 
the study over-hanging it on the 
inside, with a railing serving as the 
study wall. 

Surrounding the “point block” 
are four clusters of single level row 
houses and three-level apartment 
houses, or maisonettes in archi- 
tectese. 


The 197 row housing units and 
67 maisonettes are arranged around 
expanses of lawn to achieve a 
community atmosphere, and Mr. 
Grimble hoped that there would 
eventually develop a community 
council within the complex. To 
this end, there is space within the 
“point block” for meeting rooms, 
a kindergarten and a day nursery. 

“It will be up to the residents to 
organize and use these facilities, 
however”, said Mr. Grimble. 

All suites have two bedrooms, a 
stove, drapes, refrigerator. Each 
suite is soundproof as all walls and 
floors are concrete or masonry. 

The project is designed to accom- 
modate various types of families. 
The row houses are for families 
with children who are past the 
walking stage, while the two-level 
apartments in the tower are for 
couples with children who are not 
mobile, 


“The complex will provide ac- 
commodation for married students 
who otherwise would find it dif- 
ficult for financial reasons to find 
suitable accommodation anywhere 
else”, said Mr. Campbell. 


The tentative rate of $100 a 
month would achieve this and also 
permit the building to pay for 
itself. 


Disputes with local residents last 
summer over construction of the 
complex have now “been settled to 
the satisfaction of all parties,” said 
Mr. Grimble. ; 

Residents had feared that their 
streets would be used as through 
roads by inhabitants of the com- 
plex, which will be on the corner 
of the University Farm bounded 
by 122 St. and 45 Ave. 

He said the problem was solved 
by setting up a diversion on 44th 
Ave. which was the street in 
question. 

It is expected that most of the 
units will be occupied year-round, 
making the project more economi- 
cal. Occupancy will be available 
on a shorter basis. 

Campus planners view the entire 
project as a test run. In future 
expansion, they intend to correct 
any shortcomings in the current 
design. 


Army. 


ing the academic year. 


and quarters. 


ada. 


Canadian Officers 
Training Corps 


There are a few officer cadet vacancies still available 
for University of Alberta students interested in training 


leading to qualification as officers of the Canadian 


Training and Pay 


DURING ACADEMIC YEAR— 


Tuesday evening training parades with pay at $6.25 
per parade for a possible maximum of $130.00 dur- 


DURING SUMMER MONTHS— 


12 to 15 weeks training at an Army Camp such as 
Camp Chilliwack, B.C., Camp Shilo, Man., Camp 
Borden, Ont., Kingston, Ont., Montreal, Que. 
at $355.00 per month less $85.00 deducted for rations 


Benefits 
OFFICER QUALIFICATION— 


After successful completion of two years training, 
cadets are commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants. 
graduation and completion of military training, they 
are eligible for appointment as Lieutenants in the 
Regular Army or the Militia (Reserve Army). 


LEADERSHIP TRAINING— 


The training emphasizes development of leadership 
ability which is of course a necessity in an Army 
Officer but is not without use in civilian fields. 


SUMMER EMPLOYMENT— 


Healthful, educational summer employment along 
with students from other universities across Can- 
Uniforms provided, free medical and dental 
care during the summer. 
and use of recreational facilities provided for of- 
ficers of the Canadian Army. . 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 


Resident Staff Officer (Army) 
Armed Services Building e 
Telephone 433-3915 rae 


Pay 


On 


Meals, accommodation 


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PAGE FOUR 


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1966 


take note, council 


So the new left has hit U of A, has 
it? 
It’s bloody well about time. 


The heart of this ‘‘new’’ move- 
ment appears to be the Seminar on 
the University. This Seminar is 
finally getting down to some of the 
hard-rock problems besetting this 
community of students. 


Faculty and administration of- 
ficials are taking the Seminar seri- 
ously. Members of these august 
levels of the local hierarchy actually 
attend Seminar meetings. They 
listen and present their views in an 
atmosphere conducive to construc- 
tive debate and anaiysis. 


Surely this must be a branch of 
the Academic Relations Committee 
of the Students’ Union? 


Guess again. 


Has some other segment of the 
union’s superstructure finally be- 
come relevant? 

No, for the Seminar is not really 
connected with the union. 

But it can’t be those lazy, stupid, 
apathetic students who are doing 
this? 

It sure is, buddy. And do. you 
know why? Because most students 
aren't lazy, apathetic, etc. They are 
intelligent individuals who think 
seriously about the community in 
which they live. 


a stitch in time 


The power failure in the older 
buildings on campus Tuesday 
pointed out a glaring fault with the 
_ university's electrical system. 


The fault is that there is no em- 
ergency or auxiliary power system 
in the majority of these older build- 
ings. 


izzatso ? 


Significantly, the issue of The 
McGill Daily which contained the 
article on alleged research at Mc- 
Gill aiding the U.S. war effort in 
Vietnam—the article over which 
The Daily’s editor, Sandy Gage was 
fired—also contains a full page 
article by The Gateway Editor-in- 
Chief Bill Miller on council—news- 
paper relations. Maybe the McGill 
students’ council should have read 
the whole paper instead of just the 
front page. 


But why don’t these students en- 
mesh themselves in the business of 
the students’ union? Because they 
will have nothing to do with the 
petty, sand-box politicking which 
goes on in the union offices. Such 
behavior is beneath them. 


If our beloved students’ union of- 
ficials would bother to find out what 
students, are really thinking, they 
would find that it is the union which 
is irrelevant—not the students who 
are apathetic. 


But now a significant number of 
the more alive thinkers on this .cam- 
pus are moving in from the fringes 
of union activities where they used 
to congregate. They are now tackl- 
ing student problems in an organiz- 
ed way. And out of this seems to 
be evolving a new approach to stu- 
dent government—at least new to 


Uof A. 


It is fast becoming obvious that 
the CUS withdrawal was a good 
thing—but not for the reasons stu- 
dents’ council gave. 


It is good because all the talk 
about the nature and purpose of stu- 
dent government sparked by the 
withdrawal has caused more stu- 
dents to seriously ask themselves if 
they are happy with the present stu- 
dents’ union structure. 


And it seems many are not. 


Picture yourself on the third floor 
of Rutherford Library when the 
power fails. Try to come down the 
stairs. There are no windows in the 
stairways. There are no auxiliary 
lights, or if there are, they weren't 
operating Tuesday. Pitch black- 
ness. 


The only way to be sure of avoid- 
ing an accident is to remain on the 
third floor, even if you have to be 
somewhere else in two minutes. If 
you try to come down the stairs, 
there is a good chance you'll break 
your neck—which has been known 
to happen in darkened stairwells. 


The university should immediate- 
ly install an auxiliary power system 
in all campus buildings, or at least 
a lighting system which would allow 
people to leave a building when the 
regular power system fails before 
someone does break his neck. . 


Not to do so is unsafe. 
And foolhardy. 


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helene chomiak. 


modernize our 
archaic regulations 


Throughout Canada and the United 
States students are demanding a more 
meaningful role in the university. 
Their demands relate to curriculum, 
university government, and regulations 
governing the private morality of stu- 
dents. 


Many universities are meeting these 
demands with tact and understanding. 
Those which refuse to listen face the 
threat of a repeat of the Berkeley 
riots. 


At U of A, the administration still, 
adheres to many archaic rules. One — 


of the most notable examples is the 
1933 Board of Governors’ regulation 
of the use of alcohol. 


A spate of drinking trouble that 
year caused them to enact the follow- 
ing rule: ‘’The use of, bringing in or 
having liquor on University premises, 
including residences is strictly pro- 
hibited.”’ 


Although students have made a few 
attempts to change the ruling over the 
years, the regulation still applies. 


Last year, for example, The Gate- 
way’s attempt to carry liquor advertis- 
ing failed. 


While subsection 8 of section 93C 
of the Liquor Control Acts, 1958, 
states, ‘‘A .manufacturer may ad- 
vertise in the following media: (a) 
daily newspapers, (b) weekly news- 
papers, and (c) magazines and periodi- 
cals,’ the Board of Governors was not 
anxious for liquor advertising to go 
into The Gateway. The request 
failed. 


Attempts this year have not chang- 
ed the status quo. 


Presumably, liquor ads are not al- 
lowed in this paper because it would 
expose poor, innocent students to evil 
powers of alcohol. 


Yet, drinking is very common on 


campus. Every year hundreds of stu- 
dents get drunk in residence. 


The Board of Governors has very 
broad powers in regard to the enforce- 
ment of their regulation. Yet, these 
powers are used very sparingly. 


Residence students have few fears 
of getting caught if they are con- 
siderate of other students in the 
residence. Even if they are caught, 
the punishment is mild. 


Sometimes a fine is levied, some- 
times the liquor is confiscated, and 
sometimes a student is bawled out, 
Generally the case is ignored. 


Only rarely is it referred to higher 
authorities. 


It would seem by its relaxed en- 
forcement of these rules, the Board 
of Governors is not too concerned in 
enforcing this regulation. 


So the rules should be changed. 
There is no reason why a_ student 
should be denied rights accorded to 
other citizens. Alberta statutes allow 
anyone more than 21-years-old to 
drink in a private residence or a 
licensed lounge. 

Drinking in residence is like drink- 
ing in a private dwelling. 

Alcohol in a licensed premise is al- 
ready allowed on campus. Professors 
legitimately consume large amounts of 
alcohol in the Faculty Club, though 
the administration, with this in mind, 
gets around the 1933 ruling by leas- 
ing campus property to the faculty. 

Surely students are no more second 
class citizens than are professors. A 
pub should be opened in the new SUB. 

Not having a pub on campus does 
not stop students from drinking. 
They take their business to city bars. 

The administration would be clever 
indeed if it allowed the opening of a 
pub in SUB, for this would stop stu- 
dent discontent over archaic regula- 
tions and give the students’ union a 
large source of revenue. 


Speaking 
on Sports 


with RICHARD VIVONE 
eee 


You’re a hockey player. Ever since you can remember 


that’s all you wanted to be. 


Back in Regina, you toiled pleasureably on the outdoor 
rinks hour after hour because it was fun. When you went to 
the arena or listened to the radio or watched television, you 
visualized yourself performing there some day. It would be 
good and you would like it. 


When the junior team called, you went even though you 
were only 15. You had to follow in your brother’s footsteps. 
Fans would know your name because they expected the same 


things from you. 

You played well for the 
juniors and the pros saw you. 
One year they took you to the 
minor pro training camp and 
suddenly you didn’t want to 
be a pro anymore. Hockey, 
for them, wasn’t a game. It 
was a business. 

Then, a new man was creat- 
ing headlines across the 
country. This was 1963 and 
Father David Bauer wanted 
players for a National hockey 
team. The first training camp 
was held in Edmonton’s Uni- 
versity -Ice Arena and you 
went. 

But all went bad. A gimpy 
knee finally gave out and an 
operation was required. But 
the knockout blow was an 
attack of hepatitis. That was 
the end of hockey for the 
winter. But Clare Drake, Al- 
berta hotkey coach, impressed 
you and you thought it would 
be good to play for him. You 
enrolled in Physical Educa- 
tion. 

But the year went quickly and before you knew it, there 
was ice in the arena again. 


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BRIAN HARPER 


That year was a good one for you. There were 13 goals— 
best in the league—and an All Star berth. But the Bears 
didn’t win and that made it an unsuccessful hockey season. 


The next year, 1965-66, made up for it. This time, you 
scored 17 goals, made the All Stars again and the Bears lost 
ony one league game all season. 

The team went to Sudbury for the Canadian Champion- 
ships and the memory of that game still haunts you. No one 
knew what happened. 

But it was your graduation year and Father Bauer was 
looking for players again. 


Wanted to play 


You went to the advance camp in Montreal. They said they 
were looking for prospects for a B team next year. But they 
didn’t want that for you. You would stay with the big club. 
But, they asked, would you play if you could not make the 
trip overseas with the team? 


This was not what you wanted. You wanted to play. They 
wanted you to watch. It was no deal. 


You came back to Alberta. If you didn’t play with the 
Nationals, Alberta was the sole alternative. And Drake needed 
you to bolster his club because it was depleted by departing 
graduates. 


_ The 1966 team looks good to you—young but good. You 
would enjoy playing with them. The rookies are coming along 
well and the defence has been fortified with a couple of 
veterans returning to university. 


The general consensus was that last year’s team was the 
best Alberta ever had but you feel that this team can be just 
as good. : 


But next fall, the Olympic Season, when David Bauer is 
looking for players again and he calls ‘Brian Harper’, you’ll go 
again because that’s where you really want to play. 


UofA 


THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966 Karigg 


volleyball 


teams 


sweep Calgary open 


Two volleyball teams from Ed- 
monton won first place in the Cal- 
gary Open tournament last week- 
end. 


The men’s team comprised of 
students from the U of A won 14 
straight games. They beat the Cal- 
gary Vikings 15-4 twice and ad- 
vanced to the finals against the 
University of Calgary. The Dinnies 
defeated Mount Royal College 
Cougars to reach the finals. 

The finals proved easy for the 
Edmonton entry as they walloped 
the Dinnies 15-4 and 15-6. 

Coach Costa Chrysanthous has 
once again molded together a fine 
club that will Have an excellent 
chance to represent Alberta in the 
Quebec Winter Games. A _ pro- 
vincial playoff next month will de- 
cide the entry. 


WOMEN WIN TOO 


The women’s team continued 
their winning ways also. They 
were victorious in eight of nine 


games in the six-team  single- 
rebin meet. 
They met last year’s champs 


from the U of C in the finals and 


Three teams 
share in 
football title 


By LAWRIE HIGNELL 


Inclement weather resulted in 
the cancellation of football playoffs 
in each division and the winners 
of each league shared the bonus 
playoff points. 

In Division One, DKE “A”, Phi 
Delta Theta “A”, Dutch Club “A” 
and Education “A” will be co- 
holders of the flag-football trophy 
as they were respective winners of 
Leagues A, B, C, and D. 

Division Two saw Phi Delta 
Theta win League E, DKE “B” win 
League F and St. Joe’s “B” capture 
the League G title. 

In division three Upper~ Resi- 
dence “D” won the League “H" 
title and Engineering “D” captured 
the League “J” crown. 


HOCKEY 


With two weeks of play finished 
in the hockey schedule, Division 
Two has two teams at the top of 
their leagues with three wins and 
no losses. In League “G” Dentistry 
“B” and St. Joe’s “C” are tied for 
the lead with two wins and one loss 
each. St. Joe’s “B” and Phys. Ed. 
“B” hold the top spot in League 
“J” with two wins and no losses. 

Phi Delta Theta “B” is on top 
in League “H” with a 3-0 record 


and Phys. Ed. “C” leads League 


“Fk” with three wins in as many 
games. Peter King is the top 
scorer in Division Two with seven 
goals in the three games he has 
played for Phys. Ed. “C” including 
two ‘hat tricks’. 

In Division Three Agriculture 
“D”, Eng. “E” and Delta Sigma 
Phi “C” are all tied for first place 
with one win and one loss each. 


BASKETBALL 


After one week of play in 
basketball most teams have had 
two games and Delta Upsilon in 
League “D” holds the lead with 
Doug Krenz and Ron Finch star- 
ring in the two games. 

Agriculture “A” in League B 
holds down top spot with two wins 
and is led by Rod Chernos with 24 
points against Pharmacy “A”. 

In League G two teams are tied 
for first with two wins each. 
DKE “B” led by Tutty and VCF 


“B” with Rod and Ray Martens 


hold the top position. 


took 15-12 and 15-8 decisions. 


Coach Audrey Carson said her 
team played unbelievably well 
with only a month of practice. 
Standouts were Taffy Smith, 
Nancy Fay, Lynn Cooke, Chris 
Mowat and Sharon Kent. 

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It is unfortunate the University 

Athletic Board thinks so little of 


these two championship calibre 
teams that they wouldn’t allow 
them a budget for the trip. 


Both squads have a fine oppor- 
tunity to represent the province in 
the Quebec and CIAU champion- 
ships. To keep the calibre at a 
high level, good competition is re- 
quired and without money, it is 
nearly impossible. 


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By BARRY RUST 
(CUP Staff Writer) 


TORONTO — St. Francis Xavier 
gave Waterloo-Lutheran a lesson in 
football basics Saturday in Toronto, 
and rolled to an easy 40-14 victory 
in the second annual College Bowl 
game. 

Operating behind a punishing of- 
fensive line and an extremely well- 
balanced attack directed by sub- 
stitute quarterback Terry Dolan, 
the X-Men from Antigonish, N.S. 
piled up 510 offensive yards before 
more than 12,000 fans at Varsity 
Stadium. 

Playing his first college game as 
a starting quarterback, Dolan pass- 
ed almost at will against the two- 
three pass defence used by the 
Golden Hawks most of the after- 
noon. He completed 12 of 19 passes 


for 282 yards and four touchdowns. 


Three of Dolan’s touchdown 
passes went to halfback Terry Gor- 
man, named the game’s outstand- 
ing player. Gorman, who has 
played every minute of the X- 
Men’s seven games this season, also 
intercepted two Waterloo-Lutheran 
Passes, 

Halfback Terry Arnason caught 
Dolan’s fourth touchdown pass, 
while fullback Paul Brule scored 
the other two St. Francis majors. 
The 190-pound Brule provided 
most of the Maritime champion’s 
rushing attack carrying the ball 33 
times for 172 yards. 


NO OFFENSE 


Showing little of the form that 
propelled them to an undefeated 
season in the Ontario Intercollegi- 
ate Football Conference and third 


place in national ratings, the Gold- 
en Hawks were restricted to only 
occasional offensive thrusts. 


Hawks’ quarterback Dave Mc- 
Kay had a horrible afternoon pass- 
ing the ball, completing only four of 
twelve pass attempts for 97 yards. 
Most of that yardage came on a 66- 
yard touchdown play with half- 
back Chris Bailey in the third 
quarter. 

At halftime, with his team trail- 
ing 27-7, McKay had completed 
only one pass “good” for a loss of 
one yard. Waterloo-Lutheran’s 
first touchdown was the result of a 
four-yard end sweep by Murray 
Markowitz with 20 seconds left to 
play in the first half. 

Thanks to Markowitz, halfback 
John Krupse and fullback John 
Watson, who gained 61, 51, and 50 


X-Men roll to 40-14 victory in Collece Bowl 


yards respectively, the Golden 
Hawks did manage to compile a re- 
spectable rushing total of 177 yards. 

St. Francis outweighed Waterloo- 


"Lutheran along the line by an aver- 


age of about 15 pounds per player. 


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Regular St. Francis quarterback 
Dick Pandolfo dressed for the game 
but did not play. He suffered a 
severely-pulled hamstring muscle a 
week earlier in a game against St. 
Mary’s University in Halifax. 


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Nova Scotia and an appearance in 
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Francis’ number one quarterback 
mid-way through last Saturday’s 
game against Waterloo-Lutheran 
University, it may mean the begin- 
ning of a very bright football car- 
eer. : 


Ignoring post-game beer in the 
dressing room, except for one can 
dumped over his head by enthusi- 
astic teammates, the 673”, 170- 
pound rookie explained to reporters 
how he had masterminded the vic- 
tory that astonished some 12,000 
fans in Varsity Stadium. 


“We had a little trouble at first. 
I guess I was a little nervous,” he 
shouted above the din of the cele- 
bration. “Then we realized they 
were only sending three men deep 
on pass plays. Their corners were 
just dropping off two, maybe three 
yards.” Our spotter told me to put 
two on one in the flat. It worked, 
so we just kept flooding one side 
and then the other. 


“I couldn’t believe it. They stay- 
ed in the same defence all after- 
noon. I always knew I had a play 
that would work.” 


Across the room, Terry Gorman, 
the Ted Morris Memorial Trophy 
winner as the game’s outstanding 
player, was whooping it up. 


BACKWOODS NO MORE 


“Boy, they can’t call us back- 
woods football players anymore,” 
he hollered. “That’s what we talk- 
ed about before the game,” he said 
later. “You don’t know what it 
meant.” 


Head coach Don Loney chewed 
an unlit cigar and showed little 
emotion over his team’s victory. 


“It was a good day for us,” he 
said, “I was a little surprised at that 
pass defence. I thought they’d 
change it but they never did.” 


Could his club beat Toronto or 
Queen’s? “Gosh, I don’t know. Ah,” 
he smiled, “We’d give ’em a pretty 
good game.” 


At the other end of the stadium, a 
dejected Dave Knight, who said be- 
fore the game he thought his club 
could beat any college team in Can- 
ada, tried to explain his controver- 
sial pass defence. 


“I tried to change it a little,” he 
said. “But I didn’t dare drop more 
men back or they’d have beat us to 
death on the ground. They were 
bigger and faster than I thought 
they would be,” he said. 


“That’s really what happened on 
some of those pass plays—they just 
outran us.” 


He reprimanded a player for 
kicking a locker door, then added: 
“And stronger. Bigger, faster and 
stronger, that’s all.” 


Badminton 


Students interested in playing 
badminton are invited to the ed 
gym Monday and Tuesday nights 
from 7 to 10 p.m. and to the phys 
ed west gym Friday nights at the 
same times. 


Bring your own racquets, equip- 
ment and birds. 


Anyone interested in participat- 
ing in an Edmonton inter-club 
league is asked to contact Willard 
Roelofs at 329-4208 for details. 


—AI Yackulic photo 


BEAR GUARD DON MELNYCHUK BATTLES MOUNT ROYAL STALWARTS 
... but the Cougars turned out to be just kittens 


Bears batter Cougars 


By LAWRIE HIGNELL 


The Bears evened their won-lost 
record at 3-3 in the provincial lea- 
gue Monday night as they batter- 
ed Mount Royal College Cougars 
102-51. 


The Cougars, who two years ago 
were provincial champions, didn’t 
have the height or experience to 
cope with the Golden Bears. 


The game was similar to a prac- 
tice for the Bears. They were able 
to experiment with many of the 
new ideas coach Gerry Glassford 
has prepared for the coming week- 
end games. 

The only chance the Cougars had 
to take the lead came on the first 
play of the game when they were 
awarded a ‘technical foul shot. 


The foul was called because the © 


Bears were not ready to start the 
game when the referees signaled for 
the teams to line up for the jump. 

But the Bears came on strong 
after the missed foul shot to surge 
to a 10-0 lead before three minutes 
elapsed in the first half. 

Coach Glassford stressed the fast 
break as the Bears were retrieving 
rebounds at will. They ran the 
score up quite quickly to 29-8 with 
eight minutes left in the half. 
GAME EASY 

For a while it looked as if the 
Bears would score an unlimited 
number of points in the first twenty 


minutes but the lack of competition 
resulted in an easing up on offense. 


At times the Bears looked sloppy 
and they gave the ball away on bad 
passes several times. 

Murray Shapiro was clicking well 
under the basket on easy jump 
shots and Darwin Semotiuk scored 
three quick baskets on fast breaks. 

At the half Ed Blott had hooped 
ten points while guards Bill Bux- 
ton and Semotiuk had scored eight 
each and the Bears held a 49-17 
lead. 

With the start of the second half 
the Bears looked as if they were 
disgusted with winning by such a 
score and they began to pass poor- 
ly, miss shots and generally play 
down to the Cougar calibre of bas- 
ketball. 

After ten minutes of the last half, 
the Bears had scored only 13 points 
and lacked finesse on both offense 
and defense. 


EASY POINTS MISSED 


Forward Ed Blott missed two gift 
shots, Semotiuk messed up a lay- 
up and Shapiro missed a short 
jump shot. 

Coach Glassford put the first 
stringers in with eight minutes left 
to play and they began to run away 
with the score again. 

Nestor Korchinsky, after two 
previous misses, finally scored on a 
tip-in off Shapiro’s purposely miss- 
ed foul shot. 


Top scorers in the game were 
Shapiro with 17 and Blott and 
Semotiuk with 16 each. Cougars’ 
top scorer was Peter Jeffrey with 
14 points. 

Tonight and tomorrow night the 
Bears open the WCIAA season with 
two games against last year’s 
champion Calgary Dinosaurs. 
Game time is 8 p.m. at the main 
gym. 


THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966. ; a 


Co-ed corner 


Basketball squad 


ready for 


By CAROLYN DEBNAM 


Finally I’m getting around to the 
enjoyable task of writing about the 
Panda basketball team. In two short 
but descriptive words “they’re 
good”. There is little doubt that 
T’ll be calling them “great” before 
the season is over. 


Some people say that to be call- 
ed “good” you have to be a winner. 
As yet the Pandas have not been 
winners but lost out to the Jasper- 
ettes in a recent tournament to de- 
cide a northern Alberta represent- 
ative to compete against the south. 
The eventual winner will travel to 
Quebec in February for the Winter 
Games. 


But because you lose a best-out- 
of five tourney by a total of only 
twelve points to a team that 
doubles you in playing experience 
. .. who can say you aren’t good? 
The Pandas played great basketball 
in the series and are determined to 
even the score with the Jasperettes 
in the city league. 

* % * 


Talent is spread evenly through- 
out the team which was lucky to 
get back eight of last year’s players. 
Take Bev Richard, number one on 
the team and number one in wo- 
men’s athletics. Last year Bev was 
selected as the most outstanding 
and sportsmanlike woman athlete 
on campus. A _ quietly modest 
guard on the team, she shows the 
‘same great talent on the basketball 
court as she does on both the bad- 
minton and tennis courts. 


Then there’s Cathy Galusha, if 
there’s anything she can’t do ex- 
ceptionally well I'd like to hear 
about it. She’s called one of the 
best golfers in Canada (Dominion 
Jr. Champ 1963) and the basket- 
ball critics indicated she was one 
of the nation’s best basketballers 
by voting her to the Jr. All-Star 
team last year. 


Also chosen as an all-star was 
veteran Irene Mackay who plays 
center for the team again this year. 


HARD LUCK PLAYER 

Ask Eleanor Lester what she 
thinks of basketball and she’s like- 
ly to reply “dangerous”. Her nose 
was broken last year while playing 
for the Cubs . . . she’s hoping the 
only thing she breaks this year are 
scoring records. 


The poet on the team is little 
Sandy Young. I’ve heard her coach 
gets so overwhelmed by Sandy’s 
ability she has trouble talking. 


There has to be a joker on every 
team and it’s here that Ellory Yur- 
chuk makes her appearance. A real 


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big year 


hustler on the court, “El” excells in 
pulling down rebounds. 


Mrs. Kirk (Lois to her friends) 
joins Donna Bryks as the best long- 
shot scorers. 


Newcomer Ann Hall hails from 
Ottawa where she claimed several 
years of basketball experience. In 
graduate studies this year, Ann 
will undoubtedly prove invaluable 
for her good ball-handling ability. 


Barbara Harbison and Annette 
Stevenson were brought up from 
the Cubs (although Annette al- 
ready claims one year of Panda ex- 
perience) recently and I personally 
hope they get the chance to prove 
they’re good enough to stay. 


NEWCOMERS 


Other newcomers are Joyce 
Chorney, Marg Convey, and Lynda 
MacDonald. These girls have prov- 
ed they are good by making it 
through the strenuous tryouts 
which packed in over fifty hopeful 
girls. 

Last year, coach Miss Darwick 
bravely took her first crack at 
coaching a women’s basketball 
team. Nobody can say it was “be- 
ginner’s luck” that he led the 
Pandas to the lofty position of ty- 
ing for first place in the Junior 
Canadian Championships. Now 
with a year of coaching experience 
behind her... 

Wendae Grover is the team man- 
ager and now that the Pandas have 
been divided into two teams she 
should be quite busy. 

On Dec. 2 and 3, the team travels 
to the University of Calgary for an 
invitational tournament. 


* * * 
Women interested in trying a 
new and interesting sport ... keep 


reading. Netball is the word. Ac- 
cording to my Australian friends 
this is a modified form of basket- 
ball which requires seven players 
for a team. If you’re interested 
and want more information call 
Maureen O’Brien at 482-2539. 


TEETETT CEUTA 
AN APOLOGY... 


The writer of the cutline on page 
one of the Nov. 10 Gateway wishes 
to apologize to photo directorate for 
any uncomplimentary remarks 
made about them. Surfer says he 
is sorry photographers are such 
big losers. ; 


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However, SHS does not cover 
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ceeding this amount will have to 
be paid by the student himself. 


However, this year SHS has en- 
gaged a psychiatrist on a retainer 
basis and his service is free. 


Some students may never need 
SHS but they like the idea of hav- 
ing it. “It’s there and if you need 
it you can use it—kind of like an 
insurance,’ said Robert Ward, 
arts 2. 


Families of married students are 
not covered by SHS. However, it 
does provide a well child clinic 
which ensures proper growth, nor- 
mal development and provides im- 
munizations for pre-school chil- 
dren of full-time students. 


Some students have. objected be- 
cause SHS does not provide cover- 
age during the summer. This year 
MSI brought out a policy which 
covers the student for the summer 
and the students’ spouse and family 
for the whole year. 


“We were under the impression 
that this is what was wanted,” said 
Dr. Elliott, “but the response has 
been very low.” 


Those students who have used it 
speak highly of SHS. “They’ll send 
you to a specialist if they can’t take 
care of you and they won't quibble 
about it,” said Mary Samide, arts 3. 
“And the food is terrific,’ she 
added. 


By BUTCH TRELEAVEN 


Bleed, U of A, bleed. 

Rick Dewar, med 3, is out for 
blood—yours and mine. He is in 
charge of this year’s blood drive 


Nov. 28—Dec. 1 and Dec. 5-8 in the | 


west lounge of SUB. 


So we bleed and then what? 
That is when the real work begins. 
It costs approximately $6.50 for the 
handling and processing of a pint 
of blood. 

Blood tranfusions are free across 
Canada. In the USS. it is a dif- 
ferent situation. In California a 
pint of blood costs about $25. A 
patient going into open heart sur- 


Your female 
frigid? -- See 
Treasure Van 


By MARION CONYBEARE 

Is your girl frigid? 

Get her a fertility doll at Trea- 
sure Van. 

If that doesn’t work, try a wife 
leader. And if all else fails you can 
always turn to the wineskin. 

Along the same Venus statuettes 
are offered to them what likes to 
look. And for the full-grown 
Linus there are bedtime cuddly 
Koala bears. 

Treasure Van sells souvenirs, 
jewellry, and ornaments from all 
over the world. 

This year there is twice as much 
“treasure.” 

There has been a cut in Japanese 
goods, but bongos from Taiwan, 
the banana republic of the far east. 
were added. 

Proceeds from the annual sale go 
towards an international seminar, 
Canadian travel seminars, educa- 
tion seminars, and to the national 
WUS office. 

Between 750 and 1,000 volunteers 
are needed to run the sale. In- 
terested persons can contact Dale 
Enarson, people’s’ manager, in 
Room 108, SUB. 


So 


7 000 


“The all-male toiletry that interests women”. 


AFTER SHAVE, COLOGNE, SOAP, DEODORANT, 
HAIR TONIC, TALC, SHAVING CREAM. 


gery at the Mayo Clinic at Roc- 
hester, New York can expect to 
pay between $400 to $500 for blood 
alone. 


Dr. Buchanan, medical super- 
intendent of the Red Cross blood 
transfusion service, explained: 
“After a bottle (380 cubic centi- 
metres) has been donated some 
blood is left in the tubing.” This 
blood is divided into two samples, 
for a recheck’ of blood group and 
a test for infection up to and in- 
cluding syphilis. 


SHORT LIFE 


‘Fresh blood lasts only 21 days. 
Any blood not used within this 
time is sent to Toronto where the 
blood plasma is fractionated into 
protein fractions that can be stored 
for years. 

These fractions are very useful 
for fighting disease, immunization 
and the treatment of shock. 

But at U of A you do not have 


ae 
a SR cen 2 Wied Lp 


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fiercely --there’s beer in it 


to be a humanitarian to donate. 
There are reasons—like beer and 
trophies. 

There are four competitions to 
encourage students and faculty to 
donate. U of A is involved in an 
inter-university competition for 
the Corpuscle Cup based on the 
percentage of students donating. 

The Transfusion Trophy will be 
awarded to the faculty which is 
first to reach 100 per cent of its 
membership donating. 

NEW TROPHY 

A new trophy is being introduc- 
ed this year by the inter-residence 
council. It goes to the residence 
having the highest percentage of 
donors. 

The Inter-Fraternity Council has 
taken their usual practical attitude. 
They have arranged for the men’s 
fraternity with the highest percent- 
age to receive two cases of beer 
from each of the other nine 
fraternities, 


Symbol, symbol, on the wall 


Students’ union is once more calling for designs for its 


corporate symbol. 


Such a design should include a symbolic representation of 
the new building, says students’ union general manager Marv 


Swenson. 


The “‘symbol-hunt” began last March with a contest asking 
students to submit entries of eye-catching corporate symbols, 
representative of the students’ union. 

Contest results were never announced. Recent inquiry into 
the situation explained why—none of the three entries sub- 


mitted were acceptable. 


As well, the small cash award set aside for the contest 


winner remains untouched... 


Such a symbol will decorate the students’ union letterhead, 
the cafeteria china, and the building itself, if ever accepted. 


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THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966 


casserole 


a supplement section 


of the gateway 


editor 


brian campbell 


features editor 
sheila ballard 


arts editor 
bill beard 


photo editor 


al scarth 


This week Casserole trains 
its guns on Canada's student 
leaders. 


The lead-off article is a 
CUP feature on the new 
image (or apparition, if you 
prefer) on C-2. The march- 
ers in the grey-flannel, ivy- 
leagues. gathered in Ottawa 
for a CUS board meeting, al- 
though the article seems to 
see it as a fashion show. 


The picture with the 
article was made possible 
through the co-operation of 
Delta Upsilon fraternity. 
Our thanks for letting 
Cassero!e mis-represent 
them. 


On C-3 is one man’s opinion 
‘(where have you heard that 
before?). Casserole Editor 
Campbell gives his wsual 
slanted view of the world in 
general and student leaders 
in particular. 


Denominational U niver- 
sities have gone under the 
gun in Edmonton's other 
paper and The Gateway dur- 
ing the last few weeks and it 
seenis like that bare nerve of 
provincial policy will need 
hospital treatment if it is 
ever going to recover. John 
Green uses a blunt needle in 
the article on C-4. 


On C-5 is an article on 
next Tuesday's visit of Mont- 
real poet, Leonard Cohen. 
by U of A's poet-in-hiding 
and creative writing lecturer. 


Jon Whyte. 


Peter Montgomery rounds 
out this issue with a favor- 
able review of The Three 
Penny Opera. Barry West- 
gate may be wrong, but don't 
tell him about it. Some arts 
coverage is better than none 
at all, 


Leaders a- 


OTTAWA (CUP)—The new stu- 
dent movement in Canada is produc- 
ing a new kind of student leader. 


He usually wears a shirt and tie, 
shuns the beard which branded him 
as a radical for more than a decade 
and isn’t afraid to carry an attache 
case or smoke a big cigar. 


The Canadian Union of Students’ 
first open board meeting here has 
borne this image out. 


Piling up an amazing 19 hours of 
discussion about their national union 
over the 2%-day meeting, the men 
who lead a 160,000-member force of 
social conscience across Canada at- 
tacked their work with a vengeance. 

In informal, but exhausting ses- 
sions, the nine board members rang- 
ed over subjects as diverse as partici- 
pation in the world student games 
and their organization’s current in- 
ternal financial headache. 

Their corporate image shone forth 
when Western regional representa- 
tive David Sanders lit one cigar after 
another during the sessions. 

Past-president Pat Kenniff pulled 


on his pipe, and at times the smoke 
was so thick it nearly obscured the 
attache cases scattered about the 
downtown apartment-hotel room. 


The meeting, open to the press for 
the first time, thrived on the infor- 
mality and relaxed atmosphere. 


The new student leaders in the 
picture are really men from Delta 
Upsilon fraternity. All of them 
wished to remain anonymous ex- 
cept.for the one with the pipe who 
is in real life “Popsicle” Pete 
Amerongen, The Gateway’s ad- 
vertising manager. The leaders 
took time off on Monday to make 
the picture. The pic is not for 
real. 


There was lots of disagreement, but 
this was overshadowed by the humor 
shared by those present. 


Only once did the doors close and 
board members become tight-lipped 
about a subject. ; 


This was during a 65-minute ses- 


—al scarth photo 


O-go 


sion Saturday, when board members 
were discussing a matter “involving 
a personality”. 

By noon Sunday, newly-hired 
comptroler Pierre Turmel had en- 
tered the spirit of CUS, which seems 
to thrive on the trading of insults. 

Turmel took great delight in cal- 
ling vice-president Dave Young a 
“fascist”. 

“I couldn’t help it,” he said. 
“Everyone’s been using the term so 
much all weekend.” 

The talk was decidedly left-wing, 
with the only right-wing voice com- 
ing from McGill (or Quebec region- 
al) representative Bob Deschamps. 

There was praise for CUS presi- 
dent Doug Ward, praise which came 
fromm the lips of his predecessor, Pat 
Kenniff. Ward, Kenniff said, has 
taken “an imaginative approach” to 
the job of reorganizing the secre- 
tariat. 

And there was every indication 
that never again will CUS board 
meetings be the formal, stuffy, 
closed-door sessions they were in the 
past. 


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The CUS board meeting in Ot- 
tawa and: the local response to it 
was another example of what 
makes me sick and tired of Cana- 
dian student leaders. 


By and large student leaders are 
immature and incapable of tackling 
the job before them. They are in- 
competent, egocentric, self-right- 
eous excuses. 


First, consider the CUS mess. 


The U of A delegation came back 
from the Dalhousie Debacle and 
told council they must withdraw 
because the Canadian Union of 
Students was taking stands in the 
international and national political 
arena. 


Students have no right to hold 
an-opinion after CUS has repre- 
sented Canadian students as being 
opposed to American involvement 
in Vietnam, they said. 


They went on to say other dele- 
gates booed and hissed when they 
spoke and didn’t consider the phil- 
osophical issue. 


They told council U of A was 
the best-prepared delegation at the 
congress. 


GLORY ROBES 


In short, they covered themselves 
in holy robes of selfrightcousness 
and credited their failure to the 
stupidity of other student leaders. 


Branny Schepanovich told The 
Gateway many students at the con- 
gress were “misinformed and even 
uninformed on major national and 
international political issues, yet 
these same students, in their naive 


and arrogant approach would like - 


to think of themselves as members 
of a world parliament.” 


Don’t ask the delegates what 


is 


S 


happened in Halifax—they aren't 
talking. 


Broach the subject with stu- 
dents’ union president Branny 
Schepanovich and he says “you are 
questioning my integrity.” 


The implication is “be careful or 
Tl sue.” ‘ 


CUS chairman Owen Anderson 
and students’ union secretary-trea- 
surer Al Anderson reacted the 
same way. 


Only Marilyn Pilkington could 
add anything. 

On Monday of the week-long 
conference, she had given a speech 
outlining U of A’s position. The 
delegates, she said, listened quietly 
and attentively. 


SCHEPANOVICH SPEAKS 


When she _ finished, students’ 
union president Schepanovich got 
up and said no one had listened to 
them and that they had been treat- 
ed rudely since they arrived. 


Anyway the delegates considered 
U of A’s position all Monday, and 
Miss Pilkington said more progress 
would have been made if some “al- 
ternatives” to the directions CUS 
was taking were offered. 


They pushed U of A’s philosophy 
to the back of their minds as the 
congress moved to other business. 


I don’t know how they presented 
their case for the rest of the week— 
I wasn’t there—but several friends 
of mine who were at the congress 
said U of A’s approach alienated a 
number of the delegates. 


You can’t teach someone who 
hates you the two times table, let 
alone a complicated philosophy. 


What annoys me even more are 
the things our delegation didn’t tell 
council. 

They didn’t tell them how much 
money CUS was spending on these 


horrible projects or what CUS is 
doing with the money it has now. 


It turns out the first political 
project is 20th in line and this pro- 
ject is Indian affairs and education. 
None of the rest have priority. 


MUTUAL INTERESTS 


It also turns out CUS is in- 
terested in the same things dele- 
gation members say are close to 
their hearts—university affairs and 
educational reform. 


“I suppose Branny will be ar- 
riving in a couple of minutes, so 
I'll spell things out. 


“He knows exactly what I’m go- 
ing to say, and I know what he'll 
say, so I don’t think it will be an 
unfair advantage for him not to be 
here at the beginning.” 


That was Doug Ward starting 
his speech at Lister Hall last month. 
Branny Schepanovich did know 
what Doug Ward was going to say, 
and Doug Ward said things I had 
not heard about CUS. 


Perhaps it slipped Schepanovich’s 
mind. 


More about the CUS mess later 


—there are more important pro-: 


blems facing Canadian campuses. 

Canadian universities are grow- 
ing too large too fast. 

The Canadian campus is becom- 
ing an ugly multiversity overnight, 
and it is suffering the discontent 
and the anxiety that go with it. 

Look at mental health figures for 
college students. The suicide rate 
is double the rate for non-students. 
Things are not getting hetter. 


DOOMSDAY NEAR 


If something is not done soon, 
the university is going to destroy 
itself like a mad scientist’s machine. 

The classes are large and imper- 
sonal, and the education inside the 


right. 


4 (centers 28 8S 0D) GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966 


C-3 


poison ivy-covered walls doesn’t 
measure up. 


Students and students’ unions 
will have to make a concerted ef- 
fort to avoid another Berkeley here 
and all across the country. 


Students’ unions will have to 
change to meet the challenge, and 
most students’ unions will have to 
change leaders to meet it success- 
fully. ‘ 


Education is a provincial concern 
according to the BNA Act, but uni- 
versity reform and change worries 
students everywhere. 


And we can learn from others. 
We can profit from their mistakes 
and we can profit from their tri- 
umphs. ; 


But everyone knows students’ 
union leaders don’t make mis- 
takes. Branny Schepanovich, him- 
self, has implied as much. 


ALL THE SAME 

Stephen Bigsby at UVic says the 
same thing, and the delegates at 
the CUS director’s meeting in Ot- 
tawa spent time exonerating them- 
selves from any errors they didn’t 
make. 


In the past students’ unions rol- 
led along administering their bud- 
gets so each club got its appointed 
share. And student leaders went 
merrily out into the larger world 
to run for parliament and take a 
role in community affairs. 


They had experience in student 
politics and would become the John 
Diefenbakers and Lester Pearsons 
of tomorrow. 


Old students’ unions didn’t worry 
about university—it was eternal. 

The students were happy even 
though they didn’t have a voice in 
the community. Things were all 


‘And they should go-go elsewhere 


~ But times change and a new stu- 
dent leader is needed now. 


A leader who can be wrong. A 
leader who can learn from his, and - 
other’s mistakes. A leader who is 
tolerant. é 


The leaders now: are none of 
these things. 


SEE THE ZOO 


Go to council and watch the ar- 
rogance. Watch the smart remarks 
which cut down other councillors. 
See the petty hatreds and the cli- 
are See the union paralyze it- 
self. 


On the national level it is the 
same thing. 


There is no communication. 
Branny Schepanovich told the 
Western Regional Conference of 
Canadian University Press a strong 
CUP would take the place of direct 
communication. 


I don’t think this will work. 


Canada-wide communication 
must be established at a personal 
level. : 


CUS IS SICK 


And the CUS director’s meeting 
—vindication and counter-vindica- 
tion ad nauseum. 


“Childish conduct.” 


“Branny didn’t know how to put 
his ideas across at the congress.” 

“Thus the only alternative left to 
us was to withdraw from an or- 
ganization whose principles are as 
firm as the Sargasso Sea.” 


The whole performance reminded 
me of nothing so much as the Pro- 
gressive Conservative Party Con- 
vention in Ottawa last week. 


Student leaders in this country 
are tin-pot John Diefenbaker-Lyn- 
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eligion 


November 25, 1966 


Interdenominational universities kill academic freedom 


Rumours of a possible in- 
terdenominational university 
at Edmonton have re-kindled 
the ancient debate—religious 
dogma vs. academic freedom. 

John. Green, arts 3, an 
English major and staff re- 
porter for The Gateway, has 
some definite views about 
-the place of religion in the 
university community. 


By JOHN GREEN 
The provincial government may 


be trying to blast out the last poc- - 


kets of academic freedom in 
Alberta. | 3 

That reads like a rather drastic 
statement, but it is really? 

It has become apparent this fall 
that the Social Credit government 
oi Alberta is planning to build a 
fourth university in the province. 
The new campus will be located on 
the north side of Edmonton, and 
work in expected to begin next 
year. 

Oh joy! Relief is in sight for our 
crowded campus. No longer will 
we have to fear the thundering 
herds of freshmen students who 
threaten to make our campus un- 
manageably crowded. 

Yet, all is not as bright and 
cheery as it might seem. 

The fourth university in Alberta 
may be interdenominational. What 
does that mean? Nobody seems to 
know for sure, and the government 
certainly is not making its inten- 
-tions clear to the taxpayers. 

One thing is certain, however. 
University of Alberta chaplains 
are opposed to the principle of the 
establishment of an interdenomi- 
national university in the province. 
This was made clear in an article 
in The Gateway, Nov. 10. 

The chaplains’ objections to the 
proposed university are basen on 
their experiences in the academic 
‘cocmunity. Common to all was the 
opinion that the secular campus is 
a legitimate place to study religion 
in the context of man’s other pur- 
suits. The chaplains suggest a de- 
partment of religious studies on a 
secular campus would accomplish 
this aim. 

One argument in favour of a 
‘religious university’ is put: forth 
by Rev. Bernard Schalm of the 
Christian Training Institute, in The 
Journal for Dissent, Nov. 14. 
SCHIZOPHRENICS 

He contends, because the ‘secular’ 
university has omitted religious 
knowledge from the curriculum, 
students have become ‘religious 
schizophrenics”. He feels secular 
and religious knowledge should be 
integrated but this “is seldom ac- 
hieved in the amoral climate of a 
typical secular university.” 

Is this true of the University of 
Alberta? The epithet he applies to 
the ‘typical secular university’ does 
seem unfair or at least uninformed. 
On this campus there are religious 
organizations for most denomina- 
tions and chaplains representing 
several religions. There is also 
ample opportunity for religious ex- 
pression in the university chapels. 

A student has every opportunity 
to integrate his secular and re- 
ligious knowledge on the secular 
campus, and he is free to partici- 
pate if he so desires. 

Rev. Schalm says, “The govern- 
ment and our provincial univer- 
sities should recognize the validity 
of the church’s claim to partici- 
pation in the field of higher learn- 
ing”. a 


Universities in North America 
have grown out of church schools, 
and it is probably true that the 
church still has a valid contribution 
to make to post-secondary educa- 
tion. It must be realized, however, 
that church schools were establish- 
ed primarily as theological in- 
stitutes, and it was from these 
schools that the universities de- 
veloped. 


Canada has several good univer- 
sities whose origins lies in church 
established colleges. Some of these 
are McMaster—the Baptist Church, 
University of Windsor—the Roman 
Catholic Church, and the two uni- 
versities of Western Ontario and 
Toronto which grew from a nucleus 
of affiliated religious colleges. 

As the commitments of these in- 
stitutions expanded outside the 
realm of religion, the churches 
were quite happy to turn over the 
administration to the secular 


authorites (usually _ provincial 
governments) who now control 
them. 


This same situation is present in 
Alberta. Alberta College, Edmon- 
ton and Mount Royal College, Cal- 
gary have been, until recently, 
owned and operated by the United 
Church. In order that these in- 
stitutions will continue to have 
high standards the Church has re- 
linquished control to secular 
authorities. 


NEED MORE 


With in the past ten years more 
than a dozen universities have been 
established in Canada. 

They have been needed, and with 
the greater emphasis on education 
in this decade many more colleges 
and universities will be needed to 
fill our demands. 

It is interesting to note that 
only a few of these new univer- 
sities are church controlled, private 
institutions. 

Notre Dame, Nelson, B.C., is one 
such campus operated by the 
Catholic Church. In order for the 
Church to maintain Notre Dame it 
must depend on revenue from 


tuition and room and board (both 

oi which are exorbitant) from the 

students, and private donations. 
For the university to be eco- 


nomically feasible, all students 
must live in residence—four stu- 
dents to a room. Each student 
pays-a free comparable to the fee 


for a single room in U of A’s 
residences. 

Every student at Notre Dame is 
required to take Theology or 


Philosophy courses, a certain num- 
ber of which must be presented to 
qualify for a degree. The courses 
consist largely of studies in religion 
and ethics. 

VALID DISCIPLINES 

These are, of course, valid dis- 
ciplines, but the administration of 
this religious university feels it 
must make them compulsory sub- 
jects. Consequently, there is a loss 
of academic freedom. 

If the provincial government 
were to establish a religious uni- 
versity in Alberta, would academic 
freedom be limited in a similar 
way? 

Another problem raised by the 
suggestion of a religious university 
is that of administration. Would 
it be self-contained or subject to 
external. control from church 
authorities? 

The result of external control by 
the church involved is illustrated 
at Acadia University, Wolfville, 
Nova Scotia. 

In requiring that all members of 
the faculty be Christians, this uni- 
versity lost many valuable pro- 
fessors and lecturers as well as stu- 
dents, because they could not or 
would not comply with the ad- 
ministration’s demands. This ob- 
vious deprival of religious and 
academic freedom at Acadia has 
damaged the reputation of that 
institution and standards cannot 
help but suffer. 

SAME HERE? 

If Alberta’s fourth university is 
to be a religious or interdenomi- 
ational institution, would it be en- 
dangered by the same circum- 
stances that existed at Acadia? We 


—Allan Fries photo 


cannot afford to have bigotry in 
our universities if they are to make 
a worthwhile contribution to our 
society. 

The question will be raised. “Are 
Christian professors second rate 
scholars?” Of course not, but a 
professor does not have to be a 
Christian to teach the universal 
cencepts of physics and economics. 

Some of the best professors in 
this university are not Christians, 
yet they make a significant con- 
tribution to the academic com- 


munity. 
To whom would professors be 
responsible in an  interdenomi- 


national university? 

In the secular institute the ad- 
ministration sets policies and the 
professor is subject to the hier- 
archy. If control were to come 
from an external source such as 
the government or religious groups, 
the university teacher would have 
no freedom at all. Yet his teach- 
ing ability is based on his freedom. 
MONKEY TRIALS 

What would be reaction be to the 
study of evolutionary theory in 
biology, especially among the more 
fundamentalist religious groups? 
We might find monkey trials and 
witch hunts are not as obsolete as 
we would like to think. 

At the University of Western 
Ontario last year, a sociologist, who 
is also an Anglican minister, was 
asked to make a survey of the 
sexual attitudes among the stu- 
dents of the university. 

Sociology is a relatively new 
discipline and as such it was under 
suspicion, especially in staid old 
Lendon, Ontario. 

Some people took exception to 
the type of questions asked on the 
questionnaire, and it was made 
clear to the professor that he was 
not welcome to stay at the uni- 
versity. (The survey, incidentally, 
did not prove that Western stu- 
dents are especially libidinous.) 

More recently, a lecturer at the 
University of North Carolina has 
been removed from his teaching 
post through external pressure. 


Prudish people who objected to his 
method of teaching Marvell’s “To 
his Coy Mistress”—interferred with 
his academic freedom. 


It has been apparent from the 
comments of some of our provincial 
cabinet members that they think 
this university is a hotbed of 
atheists and purveyors of im- 
morality. _Who can forget the 
condemnation of “Edge” as ‘filth 
and trash’? Perhaps they support 
the idea of an interdenominational 
university so that the. young in- 
nocents will be protected from the 
corruption of a secular campus. 

Let us consider the position of 
the student in the ‘religious’ uni- 
versity. Ideally his reason for 
coming to university is to get an 
education, to expand his horizons, 
and to make a contribution to his 
society. 

If these ideals are to be realized, 
he must have academic freedom. 
If he is obliged to study religion, 
as he probably would be in a 
religious university, where is his 
freedom? 

A university will not produce 
religious students if it resorts to 
‘force feeding’ any more than com- 
pulsory English courses in the first 
year wil produce English scholars. 
It is naive to expect that it will. 


INDIVIDUAL IMPORTANT 


It is equally naive to suggest ‘the 

student will have a greater oppor- 
tunity to integrate his academic 
knowledge with his religious con- 
victions in a religious university. 
; Such a synthesis is largely sub- 
jective and the institution can do 
little or nothing to prevent the 
‘religious schizophrenia’ referred to 
above. 

The individual must build his 
own. system, integrate the areas of 
his knowledge, and fit things to- 
gether so they are coherent in his 
mind. 

The student at a religious uni- 

versity may suffer one further dis- 
advantage. He may feel he is 
caught in a ghetto—set apart from 
the rest of the university com- 
munity in the province and con- 
seguently deprived of that neces- 
sity, communication. 
_ He might never have his re- 
ligious views challenged while at 
university, and may never have a 
chance to adjust his beliefs in the 
light of the challenge. 

A freshmhan’s first encounter with 
an atheist or an anti-religious per- 
son can the most enlightening in- 
cident of his university career, for 
he suddenly realizes that his is not 
the only way of life. 


PROTECTIVE PARENTS 


Too many students would be sent 
to an interdenominational univer- 
sity by Alberta parents anxious to 
protect their children from the 
dangers lurking in the minds of the 
anti-religious professors they might 
meet on a secular campus. If re- 
ligion is so important to such people, 
they should not want to hide it or 
be afraid to defend it. Surely they 
realize religion can and should be 
studied objectively even in a re- 
ligious university. Students would 
profit little by attending a school 
to be protected. 

It has been suggested that a 
religious university in Alberta 
could force this campus to take an 
anti-religious or at least a com- 


pletely non-religious stand. Then 


we would truly be in an ‘amoral 
climate’ as Rev. Schalm implies. 
This would be unfortunate for the 


_ see page C-5— 
INTERDENOMINATIONAL 


_THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966. 


C5 ¢ 


yaar 


AUTHOR, AUTHOR?—Yup, at least half of this picture consists of Great Canadian 
Writer Leonard Cohen, who will be appearing in Edmonton this coming Tuesday. 


Interdenominational universities 


from page C-4 


University of Alberta which is at 
present forming a department of 
religious studies. 

Religién, whether it be Christi- 
anity, Islam, Hindi, or Judaism, is 
primarily a way of life. There is 
a body of knowledge accidentally 
associated with it. 


RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT 


It is this body of knowledge that 
a department of religious studies 
on the secular campus endeavours 
to explore—without preaching or 
proselytizing. Such a department 
tries to study religion in its philo- 
sophical, cultural, historical, and 
classical context. 

Would a religious university be 
able to present religion in any 
better way without doing away 
with objectivity? To leave out 
objectively would, in fact, be to 
promote second rate scholarship. 

Yet, to know all the fine points 
of Christianity does not make a 
man a Christian. Not many people 
have been converted to Greek 
paganism by the study of the 
mythology of the Ancients. 

There are other campuses in 
Canada which do have departments 
of religious studies and these de- 
partments are enjoying increasing 


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popularity and success. McMaster 
University in Hamilton, Ontario, 
has a department of religion which 
grew out of the old Divinity Col- 
lege of the years when the school 
was devoted to the training of 
Baptist ministers. 


NATURE OF RELIGION 


The University of British Colum- 
bia has a new department of re- 
ligious studies established only 
three years ago. These depart- 
ments do not limit their studies to 
Chrisianity alone, but try to ex- 
plore the nature of religion as it is 
practiced and studied throughout 
the world. UBC’s department is 
presently leaning toward the east- 
ern religions in an attempt to ex- 
pand the horizons o fthe knowledge 
of man. 

It would appear, then, religion is 
a valid study when approached 
without bigotry. It is, however, 
difficult to conceive of a religious 
university in Alberta (especially 
one established by the present 
government) approaching the sub- 
ject of religion in a purely aca- 
demic manner. To mention a topic 
of current interest: the death of 
God theology could bring howls of 


‘anger and swift condemnation from 


the seat of all knowledge beneath 
the Great Dome across the river. 


There is an alternative which 
could insure the safety of academic 
freedom in Alberta as well as pre- 
serve high standards of post- 
secondary education. . If the new 
campus were to be built as a 
satellite to the University of Al- 
berta with an eventual aim at 
autonomy, it would develop into 
a true university. 


The University of Calgary, in 
spite of the comments made in 
rivalry on this campus, has become 
an institution worthy of the name 
‘university’. It developed under 
the Edmonton campus, and finally 
gained its autonomy last year. It 
is successful because it grew from 


‘a satellite structure. 


Alberta’s fourth university 
should be built soon because there 
is a demand for it. There is an 
equal demand for the maintenance 
of high standards of education in 
this province. Any institution that 
would promote second rate 
scholarship, deprive students and 
faculty of academic freedom, or 
destroy the concept of a university 
as independent of government in- 
fluence (such as the Lethbridge 
fiasco) would make it a liability to 
the province. 


We need a new university, but 
we need a good one. 


3 


BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY 
Leonard Cohen is coming to town! 


ALL THINGS ARE HOLY 
Leonard Cohen is coming to town! 


(Psst, buddy, who is Leonard 
Cohen? 


You don’t know? 
That’s right. 


Leonard Cohen 
town! 


Oh.) 


Poor man he is who had “the 
misfortune to be born and raised 
in Westmount” according to Irving 
Layton who had the benefit of 
being raised in east Montreal. 

Present darling of the campus 
cognoscenti,, the bohemian in- 
groups, English 384, the Toronto 
morality squad and lots of lovers of 
language. 

Bad boy, perhaps the worst, or 
would you prefer the best of the 
bad, for he is, perhaps more to the 
point, probably the most exciting 
and likely the best writer in Can- 
ada right now. 

That’s who Leonard Cohen is, 
now do you want to fight? 


LEONARD COHEN IS COMING. 
Clap your hands and sound the 
trumpets. NOVEMBER 29. And 
the kettle drums shall resound to 
the skies bearing the message to 
the faithful and to the less faithful. 
SEE LEONARD COHEN FACE 


is coming to 


TIGERS AND THROW OUT NEW . 


LINES. Let the tambourines of 
the Salvation Army rejoice in his 
coming. LEONARD COHEN IS 
COMING TO TOWN! ( 
(Why is he coming? Because 
he didn’t have any place else 
to go? 
_No. Because he wanted to.) 
But facing facts, Buddy, no 
amount of sturm und _ drang, 
whether of McLelland and Stewart 
or Diane Woodman or the allied 
forces of SMUT (see Ted Mark, 
The Man from ORGY) Internation- 
al, could bring Cohen—author of 
Beautiful Losers—buy it over the 
counter at Hurtig’s, borrow or steal 
from the Toronto police who've 
cornered that market, or get it 
under the counter at the campus 
bookstore—hold on, not so fast, 
that was last week, now it’s avail- 
able over the counter, that’s pro- 
gress—to Edmonton. 
Rather—inside information—it 
was the honoured leader of the 
Barbarians—inside information 
CLASSIFIED—who got on the 
blower at one in the morning our 
time, three or four o’clock God 
knows Montreal time, and asked 
Leonard if he’d like to come to 


Edmonton for a day or so and 
Leonard sang in response that yes, 
yes, indeedy, he wouldn’t mind at 
all the trip into the mythic waste- 
land of the central Alberta tundra. 
Rether like a trip into the center 
of one’s unconscious, if you wish, 
and that’s always fun. And who 
knows, there exist the possibilities 
for poems everywhere—even here, 
Charlie—and Edmonton IS a psy- 
chedelic wasteland in November. 
so. 


LEONARD COHEN IS COM- 
ING TO TOWN! : 

So we all sat around and we 
listened as he sang, he sang a 
song to his lady, this particular 
gypsey-rover who lives out his 
life in Montreal and a little 
Greek Isle 

who writes dirty books (or one 
dirty book) which are truly 
beautiful 

who writes “the best one-day 
poems of any poet in Anglo- 
America” 

who loves to yuk it up and con 
the public continually but 
who gives the public a fair deal 
always by letting them know 
it is a con game and that’s all 
the difference necessary 

who made Beryl Fox on Seven 
Days look and seem like a 
motherless child 

who writes like the demon in- 
side him is burning like a 
carbon arc 

who lives, loves and sings the 
praises of Canada on the lute 
and jew’s harp 

WHO IS COMING TO TOWN. 


He, Leonard Cohen, shall from 
the skybird—if they are flying— 
descend unto us and- sing and 
speak and chant to beauty in 
Montreal, love in Toronto, har- 
mony in Canada, and other paro- 
doxes, and we shall be grateful. 


So praise be to the barbarians 

and to their leader 
who shall be nameless 

and praise to the birdmen 
(pray that their strike 
abate rapidly). 

and we shall rejoice. 


For Cohen comes-—and he shall 
say to Irving—behold, Irving it is 
not entirely wrong to have been 
born in Westmount, for have I not 
travelled to Edmonton? and ean I 
not roll craps with the best of 
them? 


And the leader of the Barbarians 


said, Ernest Manning is God’s 
mother. 
And Leonard shall come. 
—Jon Whyte 


Big Miller swings blues 


Imagine, will you please, the 
portliness of Jimmy Rushing some- 
how superimposed upon _ the 
equivalent height of Wilt Chamber- 
lain. The result is, nathless to say, 
quite super-imposing. 

But he has a voice too, the Big 
Miler which results, that has some 
of the mellowness of Ella Fitzgerald 
and some of the strength of Rush- 
ing. And he sings the blues well. 

The blues is, with all deference 
to Rexroth and Patchen, the only 
successful conglomerate of jazz and 
poetry. 

The blend of pathos and humour 
which the blues is and the idea 
of soul and expression which makes 
the blues a perfect vehicle for com- 
bining religious and sexual ima- 
gery come across with dignity in 
Big Miller’s presentation. 

And I’ve got the notion that next 
to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man 
and Richard Wright’s Native Son 
there is more of the American 
Negro’s contemporary dilemma ex- 
pressed in the blues. While one 
might wish for a rawer and more 
bare faced presentation, there can 


ah 


be little to fault in Big Miller’s 
somewhat citified delivery. He 
cleans them up a little, but the 
opportunity to hear them in any 
form is rare enough. 

The quartet which backed him 
at the Yardbird Suite did a nearly 
competent job. Terry Hawkeye, 
group-leader, did some splendid 
supporting drumming and_ the 
young guitarist Gary White man- 
aged to elicit some beauttiful long 
lines and riffs not badly at all. 

Big Miller will be performing at 
the Suite next weekend. Friday, 
Saturday and Sunday, singing a> 
melange of blues happy and blues 
sad, ballads and bounce tunes, and 
I recommend highly the oportunity 
which will be aforded you to get 
down to the Suite this weekend 
and hear probably the best sung | 
poems you're going to be able to 
in Edmonton for some time. 

If I managed to miss the point, 
Big Miller is quite great in his way 
and you'll kick yourself if you like 
the sound of a good voice and de- 
cide to miss him. : 

_—Toy J. Wehn 


PERIODICALS (Contd.) — Remember 
when Edge first appeared three years ago? 
Remember the filthy poems and stories in it? 


- Remember how the provincial cabinet jump- 


ed on it and condemned it as trash, and how 
a schoolteacher lost his job for bringing it into 
the classroom? 

Such is the history of Edge magazine, 
which published four issues before sinking in- 
to obscurity about a year ago. It was edited 
by one Henry Beissel, a former U of A English 
professor who was in voluntary exile in the 
Caribbean. Most of the contributors were 
from this university, and a great deal of the 
material dealt with problems unique to this 
province (i.e. provincialism and E. C. Man- 
ning). 

And now Edge has returned—issue num- 
ber five made a quiet appearance on the new- 
stands (Hurtig’s, the University Bookstore) 
last week. Some things haven’t changed— 
Henry Beissel is still the editor (though he 
now works out of Montreal), most of the 
material is still written by Albertans, and 
many of the things discussed are most relevant 
for the Alberta reader. 

But in other respects Edge has changed a 
great deal. Quality-wise, Edge 5 is undoubt- 
edly the best issue ever produced—and is, in 
fact, one of the best magazines in Canada. 
Some of the contributors are men of no small 
talent—W. O. Mitchell, for one, who has been 
one of the most respected Canadian fictiona- 
lists for years. 

Mr. Mitchell has contributed a superb 
radio play dealing with the Hutterite problem 


in a typical rural Alberta community. Any- 
one who has ever heard some of our agrarian 
citizens holding forth on the Hutterites and 
their communal farms will certainly enjoy 
Mr. Mitchell’s characterizations. I haven’t 
ever seen a more accurate definition of the 
rural Albertan or a more intelligent insight 
into the Hutterite problem as it exists in this 
province. Maybe CBC radio will see fit to 
stage this play; I certainly hope so. 

Oh, yes—and smut, too. An anonymous 
businessman submitted an article on Can- 
ada’s sex laws, pointing up in no uncertain 
language the absurdity of some of the regu- 
lations concerning what is and is not permis- 
sible behaviour in bed. For some reason this 
article was not printed as such, but as a “let- 
ter to the editor”. Are we to take this as 
evidence that Edge is toning down its policy 
of presenting material of this sort in the text 
proper? 

Speaking of editorial policy, Edge has 
jumped on the anti-war-in-Vietnam band- 
wagon in a four-page editorial. This sounds 
awfully old hat, but I am forced to admit that 
it is one of the most well-written and com- 
pelling articles on the subject that I have 
seen in any magazine. Not only that, but the 
editors have made the jump from talk to 
action by providing an Impeach Lyndon John- 
son petition form with the editorial. 

The magazine sells for $1.50—but for that 
price you get one hundred and twenty pages 
of almost uninterrupted text and illustration. 
I recommend it strongly. 


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On the cover 

Santa Claus can’t decide when to come to town. Will 
he make it in spring, summer, fall or winter this time? 
The girls are: Miss Spring, Penny Huber, arts 3; Miss 
Summer, Sue Hill, arts 3; Miss Fall, Joanne Fallow, arts 
2; and Miss Winter, Linda Hollingsworth, home ec 2, The 
dirty young man impersonating Santa Claus is Gateway 
photog, and ex-loser, Alan Yackulic. 

The picture was taken by Casserole Photo Editor, Al 


Scarth, assisted by Derek Nash, Chuck Lyall, and Ken 
Hutchinson. 


The picture above was snapped just at ‘the close of 


our Sunday night photo session and shows Yackulic doing 
what all photogs do when their work is done. 


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THE GATEWAY, Friday, November 25, 1966 


C-7 


’Sblood, the Threepenny Opera! 
Brechtgesang 


—Derek Nash photo 


KING LEER?—Well, maybe; but realiy it’s Captain MacHeath (Bob Brown King) gazing 


appreciatively at his new bride, Polly Peachum (Gayle Swymer). 


Also present in this scene 


from the Citadel’s production of The Threepenny Opera are two members of Mac’s gang and 
a lady who didn’t want to be identified. 


(Editor’s note: The following 
article is reprinted—in a slightly 
abridged form—from the Citadel 


program. Raymond Allen is the 
musical director for the Citadel 
production of The Threepenny 
Opera.) 


In 1728 two men named Pepusch 
and Gay compiled an opera that 
would at long last be something 
the masses could afford and under- 
stand. It was call The Beggar’s 
Opera—in English with tunes the 
people could either recognize or 
at least “hum” when they left the 
theatre. It was a SMASH! The 
story was understandable and be- 
lievable; the music was taken from 
tunes that were heard on the 


streets. Poor Mr. Handel. This 
show ran longer than My Fair 
Lady! 


And this brings us up to 1928 
when one of the most famous play- 
wrights in Germany collaborated 
with one of the most important 
German musicians to bring to us 
(and doubtlessly generations to 
come) an updated Beggar’s Opera 
—what is now called Die Driegro- 
schenoper or The Three Penny 
Opera. 

The form of Threepenny is the 
same as the form used in the 18th 
century. The songs themselves do 
not carry a story line nor give the 
drama any impetus. But the gen- 
eral setup is that there is a scene, 
then a song which reflects or com- 
ments on. what has transpired—as 
in opera, the Recitative Aria 
(scene song) idea. 


Brecht, Brecht, Brecht, on thy cold grey 


boards, o Citadel! 


The Threepenny Opera by Ber- 
tolt Brecht is basically an expose 
of poverty and thievery in early 
Victorian London, with a slight 


—Derek Nash photo 


COP AND ROBBER 
. . . bosom buddies 


turn of the screw. The poverty is 
planned. 


One Mr. Peachum (played at the 
Citadel by a somewhat Will 
Rogersish Jay Bonnell) pays laid- 
off workers to beg in certain 
specific areas of London. Pea- 
chum is in effect a capitalist who 
deliberately creates and exploits 
poverty while on the surface pre- 
tending to be a champion of the 
underprivileged. 


Peachum’s daughter (Gayle 
Swymer) falls in love with and 
makes a somewhat dubious mar- 
riage with arch-criminal Mac- 
Heath, who is lovingly known as 
Mack the Knife (Bob Brown 
King). This debonair gentleman 
runs a well-organized and thriv- 
ing thievery which steals from the 
rich and gives mostly to Mac- 
Heath, all under the protection of 
Tiger Brown, Commissioner of 
Police (Denis Kalman). 


The plot consists basically of Mr. 
and Mrs. (Karen Looze) Pea- 
chum’s attempts to recover their 
daughter from MacHeath. This 
eventually results in MacHeath’s 
imprisonment and imminent hang- 
ing. What actually happens to 
Meckie, however, must be seen to 
be disbelieved. 

@ @ e 

Robert Glenn’s production marks 
a significant alteration in the aura 
of Citadel drama. 

Previous work at this, Broadway 
bastion has been little more than 
a luke-warm recrudescence of the 
original offering, Edward Albee’s 
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. 
Albee left his mark on the Citadel 
and it has remained until now. 

A better playwright has been 
allowed to erase that mark (al- 
though Albee is by no means 
poor). 


There is a strange, perhaps even 
disturbing, consistency about the 
present production. Brecht’s subtle 
power comes through in spite of a 
translation which is not all it 
should be, and in spite of the fact 
that the production is in part, at 
least, the work of amateurs in pro- 
fessional guise. Brecht will prob- 
ably loom over the Citadel for 
some time to come. 


The disturbing consistency is one 
of satiric tone. The characters 
begin and remain on a level some- 
where between realism and pure 
comedy. 


They are the degenerates created 
by. Charles Dickens without the 
characteristic Dickensian  senti- 
mentality. At no time does one 
identify with them, and yet seldom 
does one fail to be intrigued by 
them. 

On the emotional level they are 
at most a destructive parody of all 
that is wrong with sentimental 


‘grovelling. 


They work towards the inevit- 
able (and very Marxian) destruc- 
tion of a parody criminal hero 
(criminal saint?), and then to 
taunt the supercilious audience 
(whom they have sucked in with 
their seditious lightheartedness) 
they allow, nay, invite that hero to 
be saved. 


The cause of this disturbing con- 
sistency is the total and brilliant 
absence of depth in all the char- 
acters. They show their little bits 
oi significance as obviously as if 
they had signs posted on their 
backs. 

As a result no character is 
dominant. Each is equally im- 
portant. And each actor is equally 
effective, though he be lacking in 


stage presence like Denis Kalmon, © 


‘ 


— Alfred, Lord Tenniscourtoat 


ov have a putrid singing voice like 
Olga Roland’s. 

The counterpoint between ugli- 
ness of content and seeming fri- 
volity of form creates a tension 
which unifies the play but which 
at the same time makes the play 
somewhat of a strain to watch. 


The slow deliberateness of the 
scenes lets up only once, at the 
end of Act Two, with a very en- 
tertaining piece of scene stealing 
by Anne Anglin. 

Yet it is right that the strain 
should be there. Whatever this 
play derives its life from, it is not 
from a mere dramatic tension be- 
tween characters leading to a cath- 
arsis, for it is that very kind of 
drama( and the society which pro- 
duces such drama) which Brecht is 
intent on destroying in this play. 

To say that the play deserves 
heavy dramatic treatment in view 
of the seriousness of its Marxian, 
socialistic content is to misread the 
play altogether. Brecht is not set- 
ting forth social doctrine, he is 
smashing Victorian sensibilities. 


Brecht is merely using Marxism 
as a sighting device to get a fix on 
those sensibilities (which inhere in 
the audience, not the play). 


The play takes such Marxian ele- 
ments as community of women and 
the rise of the proletariat and uses 
them not to horrify Victorians but 
to make fun of them. Victorians 
laugh at themselves in spite of 
themselves. To do this sort of thing 
effectively, a serious treatment 
would be not only useless but disa- 
strous. 


What would, perhaps, have been 


nice, was a little updating of cos- 
tume, and the use of Queen Eliza- 
beth’s coronation instead of, Queen 
Victoria’s. 


—Peter Montgomery 


When the curtain rose in the 
theatre am Schiffbauerdamn Ber- 
lin, August 31, 1928, the audience 
expected theatre that was daringly 
and shockingly direct. The 
music—both popular and sophistic- 
ated—was strikingly different and 
totally unexpected. The audience 
was swept off its seat. 

In his revolt against operatic 
tradition, Dr. Pepusch~ compiled 
his scores for Gay’s play from 
popular airs. Kurt Weill went a 
step further and composed his own 
airs. (There is one notable ex- 
ception: Mr. Peachum’s first song 
“Morning Anthem” is taken dir- 
ectly from The Beggar’s Opera). 

Just as the libretto is humorous, 
so is the score. It’s peppered with 
biting witticisms. The music is 
often in direct opposition to the 
expected mood of the lyrics— 
therein lies the satirical candor. 
The lyrics of the “Ballad of Sexual 
Dependency” are—frankly—bawdy, 
while the music is subtle and quite 
suitable for drawing room con- 
sumption. The Finale of Act I, the 
title of which is “The World is 
Mean” has a feeling (for the most 
part) of some of the most charm- 
ing moments of Gilbert and Sulli- 
van. 

Aside from the fact that Weill’s 
music often belies the feeling of 
the lyrics for humorous and dra- 
matic effects, there is a great deal 
of humor in a purely musical sense. 
“The Jealousy Duet”, in which 
Polly and Lucy literally spit a bar- 
range of investives at each other, 
is suddenly interrupted by a sac- 
carine sentimental section in which 
they sing in harmony. The result 
of which is very comical and all for 
a purely musical reason! 

While musical satire is rampant 
throughout the score, the finale 
or Threepenny is very parodistic. 
In this section, Brecht and Weill, 
rather than trying to break from 
operatic traditions like Pepusch 
and Gay, use these traditions to 
poke fun. 

—Raymond Allen 


—Derek Nash photo 


WAPPING FLING 
. . . a spinning Jenny 


N 
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_THE GATEWAY, Friday, ‘Noverbec’ 25, 1988 Oh Ae ee 


Ui > the Rociron i 


_ REVOLUTION AND RESPONSE: 


Selections from the Toronto Inter- 
national Teach-In. Edited by 


‘Charles Hanley. 


-For those of us who first tasted 
a teach-in here at U of A in the 
fall of last year, this collection of 
speeches given at the teach-in at 
U of T may have some nostaglic 
memories. 


Perhaps we will remember Pro- 
fessor Green’s forceful exposition 
of the Asian outlook which views 
the West as that part of the 
“civilised” world which dropped 
the atomic bomb on those who are 
not white. 


For those of us who were not 
so fortunate as to hear the Toronto 
teach-in this collection is worth 
reading—particularly the two per- 
spectives of revolution given by 
Z. K. Brezisski for America and 
Vadiam Nekrasov (of Pravda) for 
Russia. Robert Sclapino puts the 
American view of the Vietnam 
conflict forcefully and in a scholary 
manner, although to me it is still 
as full of holes as a sieve. 


Compared to The Autobiography 
of Malcolm X (published by Grove 
Paperbacks at 95 cents) which you 
will never forget, Revolution and 
Response is pale and lifeless. This 
autobiography and Franz Fannon’s 
The Wretched of the Earth (in the 


library) are among the greatest 
and most chilling books of the 
century. It is impossible to ap- 
preciate the disdain for the white 
liberals that those who speak about 
“black power” have (at least with- 
out the aid of a direct experience 
of hatred and violence accorded 
to few of us yet) without reading 
Fannon and Malcolm X. 


In my opinion we whites have no 
concept of the far reaching implic- 
ations of the revolutions presently 
taking place in other parts of the 
world (i.e. those countries which 
have been exploited by the indus- 
trial nations and are now part of 
the “American Empire”). Nor can 
we understand the fierce inde- 
pendence of the Vietnamese from 
the overlordship of both the West- 
ern World and China without the 
aid of these writers. 


Better still, some of those who 
are exposed to exploitation and 
who would offer assistance to the 
exploited might take note of the 
determined refusal of any assist- 
ance from us. 

The Asians, Africans, and 
Negroes all tell us to “get serious” 
and join the revolution in our 
affluent societies. If we shrug this 
off and continue to be deaf and 
blind to the exploitation we per- 
petuate in the name of “democracy 
and freedom”, then the affluent 
people of the world will be over- 
whelmed in the blood that they are 


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tempora! O mores! The 
Lent is last Friday’s Arts 
Section (which you may or may 
not have seen) concerning the Ed- 
monton Symphony ’s upcoming 
concert was disastrously incorrect. 


Under the tremendous pressure 
of late hours, overdue essays, and 
the frightening immediacy of the 
Weltanschaung, I imagined that the 
aforementioned concerts were to 
take place on November 19 and 20 
(last weekend to you), and not 
November 26 and 27 (Saturday 
and Sunday to everybody), as they 
actually will. 


Be that as it may—and it very 
well may—the program will be an 
interesting one, if a bit on the 
over-Romantic side. The highlight 
will of course be Edmonton’s own 
Golden Boy of the Keyboard, 
Marek Jablonski, who can be de- 
pended upon to produce a satis- 
factory performance of Rachman- 
inoff’s Third Piano Concerto. 


Rachmaninoff is another of those 
innumerable late Romantic com- 
posers who are inevitably either 
overrated or underrated. One is 
either nauseatingly carried away 
by the sheer gush of his music or 
absolutely revolted by what one 
considers to be his base mani- 
pulation of emotions and _ intel- 
lectual shallowness. 


As it happens, the Third Piano 
Concerto is a rather good, if some- 
what hambling, mixture of lyricism 
and melodrama. And it’s an 
immensely difficult think to play, 
for those of you who revel in 
pyrotechnical skill. 


The program will also offer 
Tchaikovsky’s Third Symphony 
“Little Russian”, Verdi’s second- 
best overture—to La. Forza del 
Destino. 


Nasty Footnote: Everyone who 
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recording of Wagner’s mammoth 
opera Die Gotterdammerung (The 
Twilight of the Gods) managed to 
avoid the best single television pro- 
gram this year. So the only thing 
to do now is to streak down to your 
hostile neighborhood record store 
and buy the London recording. 


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First, may I trespass outside my proper concerns for 


a moment? I want to recommend very highly the 
current Citadel Theatre production of The Threepenny 
Opera, which is discussed elsewhere in this issue of © 
Casserole. 

I saw another production of this magnificent work 
in Vancouver this summer, and can cheerfully report 
that Edmonton’s is in many respects the better pro- 
duction. Ignore Westgate (or at least his headline; 
the actual review was intelligent, and I suspect the 
play had “settled down” a good deal between his 
viewing of it and mine). 

On weeknights, student rates at the Citadel aren’t 
much more than the cost of the average movie, and I 
can’t imagine you finding a more pleasurable and pro- 
fitable evening of entertainment in Edmonton. 

eo e@ @ 


I saw two movies last week: Muriel at Film Society, 


and Texas Across the River at the Rialto. 


Muriel proved to be a highly controversial film, 
hated by many; I liked it a great deal. Texas didn’t 
seem to be rousing the hundreds of kiddies with whom 
I saw it Saturday afternoon to violent intellectual 
argument, but I liked it a great deal too. 


It’s a funny-Western which follows Alain Delon, 
who plays a young Spanish grandee, from the American 
east coast (where he is part of a chain of circumstances 
leading to the death of a member of the U.S. Cavalry 
who has busted up his wedding) to Texas and safety 
from U.S. law (until Texas joins the Union, about 
two thirds through the film, and in rides—yes, the U:S. 
Cavalry!) 


Dean Martin, looking more and more like W. H. 
Auden, plays the good ol’ All-American frontiersman 
who picks up Delon as a talented idiot who may be of 
use against the Injuns. 


He ends up getting Delon’s girl, while Delon gets 
and Indian maiden whose life he foolhardedly saves. 
(Everybody saves everybody else’s life in this film.) 

The chain of the narrative could be followed by a 
bright three-year-old. Once thing follows another 
without confusing the audience. But if one stops to 
consider the variety of incidents and moods strung 
like beads wantonly together on this chain, one’s mind 
reels, 

Aristocracy-vs.-democracy jokes, bad-Injun jokes, 
good-Injun jokes, pokes-about-Injun-jokes jokes, Injun 
massacre jokes, father-son jokes (involving the Injuns) , 
U.S. Cavalry jokes, bull-fighting jokes, even old- 
Southern-courtesy jokes—all of those and more get 
thrown in randomly, like the colors of an action paint- 
ing. 

Now if we compare this with Muriel, we see that 
the latter, “difficult” film actually has a story that 
would make, told “straight”, a very solid, rather con- 
servative novel-plot. Its director, Alain Resnais of 
Hiroshima Mon Amour, has chosen to tell his story 

very trickily indeed, but once one has put the narrative 
together in one’s head there aren’t many problems. 

Teaxs, on the other hand, presents the Intelligent 
Gilmoger with myriads of interpretative problems. 

Should the Cavalry be seen as a metaphor for the 
Green Berets? And if so, what are the implications 


of the film’s insistence on the soldiers’ stupidity (as 


opposed to, say, their wickedness) ? 

When the Injuns attack the settlement, the same- 
loop of film is shown four or five times (horse rears, 
falls back on Injun rider). Is this a deliberate re- 
ference to the most unbearable film I’ve ever seen, 
Bruce Connor’s Report, where twenty seconds of film 
of the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas is played over 


. and over again? If so (and it’s intriguing to think so, 


2 why not?), what kind of laughter is Texas aiming 
or? 

Instances could be multiplied ad nauseam. 

The point I want to make is that the “bad“ com- 
ercial film—and if you forced me to the wall I’d admit 
that Texas is quite a bad movie—turns out, by virtue 
of its very randomness, its freedom from artistic unity, 
to achieve a formidable complexity of texture. 

Such complexity comes hard to the “serious” film- 
maker. He has to strain his materials more, and an 
audience not prepared to grant him this right can 
criticize him brutally. 

But I believe we should grant directors like Resnais 
this cause right, because they succeed) given the 
chance) in moving us. Which Tezas, fun as it is, 


doesn’t do. 
—John Thompson